aver

Who acts: it, This, one, one man, Editor · What happens: aver, be, run, not invent · To what, where: old word, Caelte, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

«aver» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: aver in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To aver is to say something firmly, as if it were certainly true. This is an old or formal word.

Sentence 1: To aver is to say something firmly, as if it were certainly true.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 aver	mark
2	aver	aver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 say	obj
7	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 true	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 true	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 true	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	14 true	advmod
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	aver	to-infinitive			tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present		firmly, say property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	it	certainly, true property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: This is an old or formal word.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 formal	cc
6	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a old word					tree rules

Example 1

«There is no one can run like Caelte,» one man averred.

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 is	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 Caelte	case
9	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Caelte	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Caelte	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 man	nummod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 averred	nsubj
14	averred	aver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Caelte	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present			there		tree rules
2	run in a quote	can	no one			like Caelte	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	aver	participle	one man	Caelte not said here			tree rules

Example 2

The Editor still avers that he did not invent the stories.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Editor	det
2	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 avers	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 avers	advmod
4	avers	aver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 invent	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 invent	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 invent	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 invent	advmod
9	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 avers	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stories	det
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 invent	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 avers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	aver	present	the Editor				still		tree rules
2	not invent	past · do-support	Editor	the stories					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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